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...some things never change. Again the brothers found themselves at odds with the ratings board. They had to trim one of From Hell's throat slashings in order to avoid an NC-17. They also softened, by choice, the sound effects for a scene in which the killer disembowels a woman with surgical instruments. "Every time I heard that, it bothered me," says Allen. "It sounded like a knife on the bone against the meat. It disturbed a lot of people...
...small special-ops force piles into Pave Low or Black Hawk helicopters and swoops in for a closer look, flying low to the ground to avoid surface-to-air missiles and other antiaircraft fire...
Worse, when I tried to address Milikowsky’s concern by suggesting that we might ask for a referendum (such as the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Councils have carried out on past occasions), the principled people began to insult Harvard students to avoid hearing from them. Harvard faculty said that Harvard students were too uninformed to be listened to and that we could not possibly expect to learn anything from them. One professor argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views because they were such dupes that they could be hoodwinked by any competent pollster...
...groups generally issue their threats, warning that Americans and foreigners will be "swept" out of the country by Islamic groups. The problem has been not so much the threats themselves as the government?s lack of response to them. Instead of condemning the intimidation, the government seems to first avoid making any comment and then, when pressed, to assure people that the extremists are far more likely to talk than act. Only slowly and reluctantly did the national government in Jakarta say that the police would (probably) oppose any so-called "sweeping." Eventually that statement was further modified to indicate...
Although the U.S. government has called for Americans to avoid travel to Indonesia and has urged Americans in Indonesia to leave, I suspect that all Americans and other foreigners here are making their decisions according to their local realities. Last night, in a conversation with my electrician, who is a Muslim from Sumbawa, I heard a story about an American community on that island. There is a U.S.-managed gold mine on Sumbawa that employs several hundred Americans who live there with their families and who supervise a workforce made up of thousands of local people. As soon as this...